Motivational Quotes

Silence

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Silence

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Ausonius

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Bagehot, Walter

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

Those that are silent profess consent.

10.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

11.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

12.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

O'Malley, Austin

13.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

14.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

15.

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

16.

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

17.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

18.

The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

19.

Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

20.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

21.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

22.

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

24.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

25.

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

Delint, Charles

26.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

27.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

28.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

29.

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

30.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [Proverbs 17:28]

Bible

31.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

32.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Eliot, George

33.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

34.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

35.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says,'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.'A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

36.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal

37.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

38.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

39.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

40.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Huxley, Aldous

41.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

42.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

43.

When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

45.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

47.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

49.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

50.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace